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it's amazing to think that in the mid 1950s we were paying the equivalent of

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over 2 000 modern day us dollars for relatively small black and white tvs

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that required you to fight with a finicky antenna and just 60 years later

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you can have an incredibly high high-res lightweight device that sits on your

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desk for a tenth of that price so given how quickly the industry has progressed

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it's kind of surprising that one of the best display technologies out there

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today hasn't yet made its way to our gaming battle stations i'm talking of

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course about OLED screens which are common in both televisions and

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smartphones thanks to their incredibly good color reproduction deep blacks and

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high contrast so consider this there are plenty of big tvs and tiny phones with

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OLED screens so why can't we figure out how to put them into medium-sized

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computer monitors i mean you could argue that having accurate contrast is even

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more important for pcs than it is for tvs and smartphones because a

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professional color work is done on pcs and b OLED has extremely fast response

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times which is super important for competitive gamers who've gotta frag

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lots of noobs in a small amount of time so the challenge is actually twofold one

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aspect of the issue has to do with how the technology itself would be used on

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desktops and the other has to do with how oleds are actually put together

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although OLED delivers a picture that's generally far superior to the led

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backlit displays commonly built for desktop and laptop pcs they tend to have

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a much shorter lifespan the organic materials that allow the pixels in an

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OLED display to generate their own light simply don't last as long as the

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backlights in a more run-of-the-mill led screen more specifically blue sub-pixels

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tend to burn out much more quickly than red or green ones due to their chemical

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makeup so after about 14 000 hours blue

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OLED cell pixels will only be about half as bright as they originally were

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the red and green subpixels degrade much more slowly leading to your monitor

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displaying some very funky looking colors

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and not the good kind of funky

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and while this is also true for phone displays and tvs consumers tend to not

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leave those gadgets on all the time most

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phones shut their screens off automatically when not in use for more

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than about a minute and unless you're running a bar or hotel where the tv is

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perma-tuned to a news or sports channel you typically turn it off after a few

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hours at most hopefully this isn't the case with

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computer monitors as they tend to be just left on for much longer periods of

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time which would hasten the death of those OLED pixels the fact that we leave

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our monitors on for such a long time also leads straight to the other

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practical challenge burn-in oleds are much more susceptible

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to residual image burn in than standard led backlit displays and on a computer

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screen which often shows the same desktop wallpaper and ui elements such

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as a taskbar users could be left with some very ugly visual artifacts whenever

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they want to play a game or simply fire up a web browser for goodness sake but

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even if consumers were careful to use screen savers and turn off their

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monitors as soon as they're done using them it isn't just user behavior that's

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kept OLED screens off of our desktops the manufacturing process has also kept

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OLED primarily in the realm of tvs instead of pcs because manufacturing

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defects are much more common in OLED screens compared to other types of

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displays making them more expensive to produce OLED technology is still common

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on phones because manufacturers can stomach the cost of a small screen being

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defective and even on large tvs OLED makers can still make a sizeable profit

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because sales of tvs tend to dwarf sales

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of monitors that has left OLED computer monitors in a bit of a weird space it

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doesn't make much sense for companies to start cranking them out in huge numbers

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just for them not to sell as well as tvs in addition to having to deal with

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widespread consumer dissatisfaction because people just decided to leave

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their monitors turned on all the time but this doesn't mean those of you who

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want a nice looking OLED monitor should lose hope not only are there now a few

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OLED monitors and laptops on the market albeit at higher prices but the industry

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is working on finding ways to increase manufacturing efficiency and OLED

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longevity including everything from printing the pixels onto a substrate

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inkjet style to using slightly different molecules to produce light and color

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hopefully in the near future this great piece of tech will find its way onto

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desktops around the globe but if it doesn't happen nothing's stopping you

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from just plugging your 60-inch OLED tv into your computer and kicking back

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